Sarah Sands

Sarah Sands enjoyed decade long tenures at the London Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph, before becoming the first female editor of the Sunday Telegraph in 2005. Her topical weekly column looks at social and cultural issues.

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Sarah Sands: Rise with the lark, taste the breath of morning – time's then on your side

Greeting the dawn is the only effective recipe for success and moral strength

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Sarah Sands: Let's leave Europe and snuggle up with the rugby players

Sunday, 11 September 2011

Naturally, we all agree with the IMF's fabulous Christine Lagarde that public affairs are improved by reining in the testosterone. But what are we to do with the global surplus of it? Bury it, like radiation?

Sarah Sands: Changing-room rage averted by shoppers' serenity

Sunday, 4 September 2011

There are a few things from which celebrity cannot protect you. They include parking tickets and taking a restricted number of garments into shop changing rooms. Zara Phillips does not need to shoplift, but then neither do many shoplifters. Last week she was stopped from carrying too many Superdry items into a changing room. I don't quite understand why she needed to try anything on, since the only point is the name of the brand and, in the end, a T-shirt is just a T-shirt.

Sarah Sands: Attention to detail is the basis for terror

Sunday, 28 August 2011

For masters of the universe, as for tyrants, ridicule is a far worse punishment than hostility. Fred Goodwin has brought down a bank and imperilled his country's economy. But his epitaph will be an email headed: "Rogue biscuits".

Sarah Sands: The future is fearful. Ask Robert Harris...

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Philosophers and politicians may agree that you should face down your fears in order to obtain wisdom and courage, but they are not the ones investing in the stock market at the moment. The stomach-churning losses in the last week may have underlying causes but the momentum of short-selling is attributed above all to the smell of fear.

Sarah Sands: How the household broom restored our pride

Sunday, 14 August 2011

When Norway wanted to show social healing of its deep wound, its citizens held up roses. Young Iranians tried and poignantly failed to bring freedom by showing hands painted green. America reaches instinctively for the Stars and Stripes in times of national trauma. And Britain? Oh, we have the broom.

Sarah Sands: Lost and found in translation

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Knowledge is power – especially when it comes to languages

Sarah Sands: We need star-gazers like Hilton to think the unthinkable

Sunday, 31 July 2011

It is charming to discover that while George Osborne is peering down at the point noughts of growth, David Cameron's policy adviser Steve Hilton has his head in the clouds. Why the fuss that Hilton's blue-sky thinking includes the abolition of maternity and consumer rights and introduction of everlasting sunshine? If he calls for cautious reform and more team games, the mad monk is out of a job.